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On Feb 22, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Martin Higham <martin@ocasta.co.uk> wrote:
> Daemons didn't replace externals.
This line:
It is intended to replace the [external] mechanism.
from this wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ExternalProcesses
led me to believe that something about externals would be phased out in favor of os daemons.
> There is no way to configure a daemon to
> handle a URL without an Apache or nginx server doing the routing. External
> services can also receive authenticated user contexts. The downside with
> externals is no Iris Couch, no Cloudant and no Big Couch which is all a bit
> of a nuisance.
what, no BigCouch?! [tires screeching]. I'm assuming that this will be worked out come 2.0
time?
>
> F you want an example of a external process for managing one database per
> user have a look here - https://github.com/ocasta/CouchDB-Selfservice
Thanks for this link!
>
> Martin
>
> On Friday, February 22, 2013, Stephen Bartell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org <javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 22, 2013, at 21:46 , Jeff Charette <iomatix@yahoo.com<javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how setup database per user in a couch app? Wouldn't
>> this just give admin access to the main db?
>>>
>>> People use background processes to create databases on demand. You can
>> manage them with CouchDB’s “Externals” system. Listening on the _users db’s
>> _changes feed and acting on that is common pattern.
>>
>> Wasn't externals replaced with daemons?
>> http://couchdb.readthedocs.org/en/latest/os-daemons.html
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jan
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to setup up a basic user signup, then give them protected
>> docs. I have it working for a whole database, but ran into trouble with
>> attachments. Many have also warned of the security issues of protecting
>> your docs with secure_rewrites.
>>>>
>>>> I'm stuck and thanks for all your time.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Charette | Principal
>>>> We Are Charette
>>>> web / identity / packaging
>>>>
>>>> m 415.298.2707
>>>> w wearecharette.com
>>>> e jeffrey@wearecharette.com <javascript:;>
>>>
>>
>>